Three-dimensional portable document format: a simple way to present 3-dimensional data in an electronic publication

Three-dimensional (3D) models of teeth and soft and hard tissues are tessellated surfaces used for diagnosis, treatment planning, appliance fabrication, outcome evaluation, and research. In scientific publications or communications with colleagues, these 3D data are often reduced to 2-dimensional pictures or need special software for visualization. The portable document format (PDF) offers a simple way to interactively display 3D surface data without additional software other than a recent version of Adobe Reader (Adobe, San Jose, Calif). The purposes of this article were to give an example of how 3D data and their analyses can be interactively displayed in 3 dimensions in electronic publications, and to show how they can be exported from any software for diagnostic reports and communications among colleagues.

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This Degree Project is carried through in association with Fototext in Guthenburg. The firmsees benefits using”Soft Proof” technology for both economic and time-saving. The reasonfor ”Soft Proofing” for internal/ external production is to estimate and controll documentswithout using digital or chemical printing output.The different technical solutions to ”Soft Proof”, knowledges and facts aboutColorManagement together with PDF-workflow is going to pattern for a correct succesfull”Soft Proofing” on the monitor.Acrobat 5 in association with Photoshop 6 are effectively used in ”Soft Proofing” technic.The advance and capacity of the graphical softwares which are explained in this reporthelps the users to begin to experiment with ”Soft Proof”. Graphical firms which are interestedto begin working with ”Soft Proof” need to allready have knowledge in ICC-profilingand a practical ColorManaged workflow.

Document analysis of PDF files: methods, results and implications

A strategy for document analysis is presented which uses Portable Document Format (PDF the underlying file structure for Adobe Acrobat software) as its starting point. This strategy examines the appearance and geometric position of text and image blocks distributed over an entire document. A blackboard system is used to tag the blocks as a first stage in deducing the fundamental relationships existing between them. PDF is shown to be a useful intermediate stage in the bottom-up analysis of document structure. Its information on line spacing and font usage gives important clues in bridging the semantic gap between the scanned bitmap page and its fully analysed, block-structured form. Analysis of PDF can yield not only accurate page decomposition but also sufficient document information for the later stages of structural analysis and document understanding.

Gestores personales de bases de datos de referencias bibliográficas: características y estudio comparativo

[ES] Se estudian las características comunes y específicas de los gestores personales de bases de datos de referencias bibliográficas más utilizados: Reference Manager, EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks y EndNote Web. Los Apartados analizados son: la entrada de datos, el control de autoridades, los comandos de edición global, la personalización de algunos aspectos de las bases de datos, la exportación de las referencias, la visualización de los Registros, la inserción de citas bibliográficas y la generación automática de bibliografías.

Gerador de relatórios Purus.

Arquitetura do Purus. Arquivo de definição de dados (DataSource). Arquivo de definição de relatório. Recursos. Agrupamento. Funções do grupo. Parametrização de definição de relatório. Inclusão de caracteres ASCII. Formatação de dados. Relatórios no formato CSV. Execução do Purus. Reportmanager.

SPHERE: Stormont Parliamentary Hansards: Embedded in Research and Education

SPHERE (Stormont Parliamentary Hansards: Embedded in Research and Education) was a JISC-funded project based at King’s College, London and Queen’s University, Belfast, working in Partnership with the Northern Ireland Assembly Library, and the NIA Official Report (Hansard). Its purpose was to assess the use, value and impact of The Stormont Papers digital resource, and to use the results of this assessment to make recommendations for a series of practical approaches to embed the resource within teaching, learning and research among the wider user community. The project began in November 2010 and was concluded in April 2010.

A series of formal reports on the project are published by JISC online at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/impactembedding/sphere.aspx

SPHERE Impact analysis summary
Portable Document Format
SPHERE interviews report
SPHERE Outreach use case
SPHERE research use case
SPHERE teaching use_case
SPHERE web survey report
SPHERE web analysis

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Projeto para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores

Evolution of Various Library Instruction Strategies: Using Student Feedback to Create and Enhance Online Active Learning Assignments

This case study traces the evolution of library assignments for biological science students from paper-based workbooks in a blended (hands-on) workshop to blended learning workshops using online assignments to online active learning modules which are stand-alone without any face-to-face instruction. As the assignments evolved to adapt to online learning supporting materials in the form of PDFs (portable document format), screen captures and screencasting were embedded into the questions as teaching moments to replace face-to-face instruction. Many aspects of the evolution of the assignment were based on student feedback from evaluations, input from senior lab demonstrators and teaching assistants, and statistical analysis of the students’ performance on the assignment. Advantages and disadvantages of paper-based and online assignments are discussed. An important factor for successful online learning may be the ability to get assistance.

La Integració de les TIC en la docència: teoria i pràctica

En el nou Espai Europeu d’Ensenyament Superior (EEES) les TIC (Tecnologies d’Informació i Comunicació) juguen un paper fonamental, donant suport a la docència dins i fora de l’aula. Dins de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, la USQUID (Unitat de Suport a la Innovació i la Qualitat Docent) d’Humanitats, des de la seva creació el 1998, ha destacat per la integració de les TIC a la docència, arran sobretot dels canvis en els paradigmes educatius. Uns paradigmes que, en la nova societat de la informació, aposten per la imatge (hipervisualitat). La nova visualitat porta a l’individu a nous formats, a noves maneres d’entendre l’educació, l’aprenentatge i, en darrera instància, la docència. La hipervisualitat, alhora, ens remet a l’hipertext com a eina per tal de donar espai i contingut a les assignatures que s’imparteixen a les universitats. Assumir que passem d’una pedagogia, sovint anquilosada, a un nou estil docent dins de l’aula, és un dels reptes que el professorat –i en conseqüència l’alumnat– ha d’assumir. La USQUID d’Humanitats posa en pràctica els canvis que en els darrers anys han sorgit en la societat digital. D’aquesta manera s’ha dedicat a la creació de pàgines web d’assignatures i de llibres electrònics (e-books), com a eines importants per a la docència i l’aprenentatge. D’una banda, les pàgines web superen les restriccions d’espais digitals interns (intranet) i aporten un suport visual –i sovint auditiu– a la docència, que permeten als alumnes treballar els materials de classe d’una manera més àgil i que, en darrer terme, posa a les seva disposició recursos de tipus divers, per tal d’ampliar la informació donada a classe. En alguns casos, a més, la web esdevé un entorn essencial on professorat i alumnes troben els materials necessaris per a la docència i l’aprenentatge, on s’estableixen les pautes necessàries per a programes de seminaris i on s’intenta, curs a curs, anar cap a l’ideal de l’avaluació continuada. D’altra banda, els llibres electrònics ofereixen l'oportunitat de replantejar el format ja tradicional, dels arxiu en format Portable Document Format (PDF), i s’encaminen cap a la construcció d’hipertextos d’informació: eines i formats útils per a la docència i on l’alumne troba una informació de qualitat. Malgrat tot, aquesta posada en pràctica de la teoria necessita de millores en la confecció de les pàgines web, de més formació entre el professorat i del personal tècnic i de més suport del propi centre

Organização e implementação de uma Rede global de informação para o Arquivo Técnico da Direcção de Navios, da Base Naval de Lisboa

O grande desafio da atual sociedade da informação é gerir novas abordagens de produção, organização, circulação e recuperação da informação, com recurso às Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação. Com base neste pressuposto, o presente estudo é desenvolvido a partir da necessidade das unidades navais terem acesso imediato à informação atualizada de caráter técnico, em formato digital, para a resolução de problemas a bordo e para apoio à tomada de decisão. Face à constatação do crescente número de pedidos de acesso à documentação em formato digital, rapidamente se verificou ser essencial implementar uma metodologia que permitisse o seu acesso expedito e em tempo útil, sem restrições espacio-temporais, e que fosse dinâmico na atualização do seu conteúdo documental. Neste sentido, procedeu-se à desmaterialização dos documentos técnicos, por meio da digitalização, com reconhecimento ótico de caracteres, anexação de metadados e classificação e arquivo digital destes documentos, com vista à adoção do padrão internacional para arquivos digitais a longo prazo: o Portable Document Format/Archiving (PDF/A). A desmaterialização dos documentos técnicos implica a identificação dos circuitos e fluxos de informação, das tipologias documentais envolvidas e das responsabilidades associadas a cada atividade, no sentido de simplificar e racionalizar os procedimentos e consequentemente reajustar esses fluxos de informação, sendo fundamental a implementação de sistemas de gestão que promovam a interoperabilidade e a troca de informação. Desta forma, com o decorrer do estudo, identificando e fazendo uso de sistemas e aplicações já existentes no contexto militar naval, pretende-se efetuar a organização e implementação de uma rede global de informação para o Arquivo Técnico da Direcção de Navios, da Base Naval de Lisboa. Considera-se que este trabalho poderá contribuir para a continuidade da reflexão já existente sobre a desmaterialização dos arquivos e divulgação mais sustentada da informação que estes detêm, através de uma arquitetura relacional dos sistemas de gestão de documentos digitais.

Creating reusable well-structured pdf as a sequence of component object graphic (cog) elements

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a page-oriented, graphically rich format based on PostScript semantics and it is also the format interpreted by the Adobe Acrobat viewers. Although each of the pages in a PDF document is an independent graphic object this property does not necessarily extend to the components (headings, diagrams, paragraphs etc.) within a page. This, in turn, makes the manipulation and extraction of graphic objects on a PDF page into a very difficult and uncertain process. The work described here investigates the advantages of a model wherein PDF pages are created from assemblies of COGs (Component Object Graphics) each with a clearly defined graphic state. The relative positioning of COGs on a PDF page is determined by appropriate "spacer" objects and a traversal of the tree of COGs and spacers determines the rendering order. The enhanced revisability of PDF documents within the COG model is discussed, together with the application of the model in those contexts which require easy revisability coupled with the ability to maintain and amend PDF document structure.

Dynamic Link Inclusion in Online PDF Journals

Two complementary de facto standards for the publication of electronic documents are HTML on theWorldWideWeb and Adobe s PDF (Portable Document Format) language for use with Acrobat viewers. Both these formats provide support for hypertext features to be embedded within documents. We present a method, which allows links and other hypertext material to be kept in an abstract form in separate link databases. The links can then be interpreted or compiled at any stage and applied, in the correct format to some specific representation such as HTML or PDF. This approach is of great value in keeping hyperlinks relevant, up-to-date and in a form which is independent of the finally delivered electronic document format. Four models are discussed for allowing publishers to insert links into documents at a late stage. The techniques discussed have been implemented using a combination of Acrobat plug-ins, Web servers and Web browsers.

Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project

Adobe's Acrobat software, released in June 1993, is based around a new Portable Document Format (PDF) which offers the possibility of being able to view and exchange electronic documents, independent of the originating software, across a wide variety of supported hardware platforms (PC, Macintosh, Sun UNIX etc.). The fact that Acrobat's imageable objects are rendered with full use of Level 2 PostScript means that the most demanding requirements can be met in terms of high-quality typography and device-independent colour. These qualities will be very desirable components in future multimedia and hypermedia systems. The current capabilities of Acrobat and PDF are described; in particular the presence of hypertext links, bookmarks, and yellow sticker annotations (in release 1.0) together with article threads and multi-media plugins in version 2.0, This article also describes the CAJUN project (CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks) which has been investigating the automated placement of PDF hypertextual features from various front-end text processing systems. CAJUN has also been experimenting with the dissemination of PDF over e-mail, via World Wide Web and on CDROM.

Adobe's Acrobat -- providing the missing link?

Adobe's Acrobat software, released in June 1993, is based around a new Portable Document Format (PDF) which offers the possibility of being able to view and exchange electronic documents, independent of the originating software, across a wide variety of supported hardware platforms (PC, Macintosh, Sun UNIX etc.). The fact that the imageable objects are rendered with full use of Level 2 PostScript means that the most demanding requirements can be met in terms of high-quality typography, device-independent colour and full page fidelity with respect to the printed version. PDF possesses an internal structure which supports hypertextual features, and a range of file compression options. In a sense PDF establishes a low-level multiplatform machine code for imageable objects but its notion of hypertext buttons and links is similarly low-level , in that they are anchored to physical locations on xed pages. However, many other hypertext systems think of links as potentially spanning multiple files, which may in turn be located on various machines scattered across the Internet. The immediate challenge is to bridge the "abstraction gap" between high-level notions of a link and PDF's positionally-anchored low-level view. More specifically, how can Mosaic, WWW and Acrobat/PDF be configured so that the notions of "link ", in the various systems, work together harmoniously? This paper reviews progress so far on the CAJUN project (CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks) with particular reference to experiments that have already taken place in disseminating PDF via e-mail, Gopher and FTP. The prospects for integrating Acrobat seamlessly with WWW are then discussed.

Journal publishing with Acrobat: the CAJUN project

The publication of material in electronic form should ideally preserve, in a unified document representation, all of the richness of the printed document while maintaining enough of its underlying structure to enable searching and other forms of semantic processing. Until recently it has been hard to find a document representation which combined these attributes and which also stood some chance of becoming a de facto multi-platform standard. This paper sets out experience gained within the Electronic Publishing Research Group at the University of Nottingham in using Adobe Acrobat software and its underlying PDF (Portable Document Format) notation. The CAJUN project1 (CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks) began in 1993 and has used Acrobat software to produce electronic versions of journal papers for network and CD-ROM dissemination. The paper describes the project's progress so far and also gives a brief assessment of PDF's suitability as a universal document interchange standard.